Cache Rescue System Beta Test

[Jeremy]

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

So far this looks great. I’d like to try and take on a mission but I haven’t found one of these yet so how does that verify if it is a DNF?, as in, it was removed by the owner or someone else and nothing was said.

That being said, If I was to find it and verify it, can it also be logged as a find? Maybe that is for a reveiwer to answer.

[Team Deejay]

One other question on this. I noticed one cache on the list belonged to a active cacher in SE Wisconsin, who has 18 caches still active. I won’t mention the name of the cache or owner, but if you cache in SE Wisconsin, you will know which one it is. Doesn’t this person respond to emails at all? I would think the owner should be the person to “rescue” if they are at all active.

As I wrote that, I thought of another question. Will there be any restrictions on new placements from people whose caches have to be rescued? I would think that they would at least have to convince an approver that they understand their responsibilities before they could place another cache. In most cases, these folks are no longer involved, but not all cases, as above.

[Team B Squared]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

That being said, If I was to find it and verify it, can it also be logged as a find? Maybe that is for a reveiwer to answer.

I would log it as a find if it was the first time you found the cache, you did find it.

[Buy_The_Tie]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

So far this looks great. I’d like to try and take on a mission but I haven’t found one of these yet so how does that verify if it is a DNF?, as in, it was removed by the owner or someone else and nothing was said.

That being said, If I was to find it and verify it, can it also be logged as a find? Maybe that is for a reveiwer to answer.

It would probably be better if the person going on on the rescue mission for a particular cache had actually found that cache before (and remembers about where the cache is). Although actually having found the cache in the past is not a requirement to going out and rescuing it.

If you haven’t yet found the cache and you set out to rescue it then you actually find it, I suppose you can log it as a find if you want. However, if there isn’t a cache there (which is likely), it would probably be bad form to log a find.

As best as we can, we are going to try and verify that a rescue mission was successful. It would be nice if when you find bits of a cache being rescued, if you could post pictures of those bits to the cache page. Or maybe you could post a picture of the empty stump, or the pile of sticks with nothing underneith it.

[Buy_The_Tie]

@Team Deejay wrote:

One other question on this. I noticed one cache on the list belonged to a active cacher in SE Wisconsin, who has 18 caches still active. I won’t mention the name of the cache or owner, but if you cache in SE Wisconsin, you will know which one it is. Doesn’t this person respond to emails at all? I would think the owner should be the person to “rescue” if they are at all active.

For ALL of the caches on the list, there has been *NO RESPONSE* from the owners of those caches.

@Team Deejay wrote:

As I wrote that, I thought of another question. Will there be any restrictions on new placements from people whose caches have to be rescued? I would think that they would at least have to convince an approver that they understand their responsibilities before they could place another cache. In most cases, these folks are no longer involved, but not all cases, as above.

I think that in virtually *all* cases of caches needing rescue, the owners are no longer involved in Geocaching so most of the time this isn’t going to be an issue.

As a reviewer, I have come across this once before. When the cacher submitted their new cache it was published because it met the guidelines. I did include a friendly private note to that individual asking them to take better care of this cache then the problem one.

[Team Deejay]

@Buy_The_Tie wrote:

I think that in virtually *all* cases of caches needing rescue, the owners are no longer involved in Geocaching so most of the time this isn’t going to be an issue.

The cache I am referring to is Stop and Cache – Fire. The owner currently has 18 active caches, placed as recently as April, and has logged finds as recently as August 20. I suppose he could have suddenly quit geocaching. Just seems strange….

Anyway, we are heading out to pickup Lyons State Forest tomorrow.

[Team Deejay]

We completed the first cache rescue this morning (Lyons State Forest). When we posted the report the system worked correctly to remove the mission from the list of available mission. Nothing else happened, but I am assuming that the rest of the system will update when the reviewers approve the rescue.

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